Leicester City have signed Italian striker Davide Lorenzo, but he has a long way to go before he will challenge for a place in Claude Puel’s first team.

The 24-year-old striker has signed a short-term contract after a trial period to allow him more time to gain his fitness before City will assess him properly in under-23 or trial games.

Lorenzo began his career in the youth team at Juventus but was released and tried to kick-start his career in Malta, Switzerland, Norway and Belgium, and he had trials in the USA with Cosmos and Red Bulls in New York.

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“I know that the contract was a consequence of the actions I have done inside and, above all, outside the field,” he said.

“I refer to all the things I have experienced in the last years, during which I learned so much from my mistakes, now I just have to continue like this, training hard every day to get more emotions like that.”